Question

We stayed late to help clean up after the banquet. Label the parts of speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

We - pronoun

Stayed - verb

Late - adverb

To - preposition

Help - verb

Clean - verb

Up - preposition

After - preposition

The - adjective/determiner

Banquet - noun

Explanation:

Parts of speech are the categories words belong to depending on their syntactic functions. In the English language, there are eight main parts of speech:

• nouns - banquet, car, dog, man...
• pronouns - I, you, he, they...
• adjectives - beautiful, nice, strange...
• verbs - to go, to eat, to sit...
• adverbs - up, down, right, quickly...
• prepositions - on, above, between, until...
• conjunctions - and, but, because...
• interjections - oh! ouch! dear me!...

Some people consider determiners (a/an, the, my, that, etc.) to be a separate part of speech, while others consider them to be a type of adjectives.